7 Amherst Road, Kenilworth, CV8 1AG
About 7 Amherst Road
7 Amherst Road is a detached house in Kenilworth (CV8 1AG). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£495/sq ft) was about 67.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2021 for £767,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Energy performance
7 Amherst Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
- Jun 2022PorchFullIn report
Extension: Part single, part two storey · Side and rear of property
Erection of first floor side extension, two/single storey rear extension. Replacement porch and addition of pitched roof at front, with partial render and cladding to elevations.
- Agent
- Perfect Planning Architectural Services Ltd.
Extension- Documents
- 16 docs on file
- Reference
- W/22/0605
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£832,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£767,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
8 December 2021Most recent
£767,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CV8 1AG: £565,000 (2022–2017).
Nearby sales in CV8 1AG
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What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby
Versus other Amherst Road homes
Price per m² for 7 Amherst Road runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£5,326
Street avg £3,672
Floor Area
144 m²
Street avg 161 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.3 t/year
Street avg 5.9 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Rose Croft — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School. 9 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.0dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.1dB